Bye Bye Love
Directed by Isao Fujisawa
Nihilistic drifter Utamaro meets Giko, a female-presenting shoplifter that immediately catches his eye, and one thing leads to another: the couple find themselves on the lam. A newly rediscovered landmark of Japanese queer cinema, directed by Isao Fujisawa, assistant director to Hiroshi Teshigahara (Woman in the Dunes).
A Tokyo greengrocer puts his livelihood at risk to extend help to a group of Chinese exchange students. A lesser-seen masterpiece from director Nobuhiko Obayashi (House) that chronicles the end of a decade marked by the Japanese economic bubble and the brutal close of possibility in China.
Lonely, alienated Sonya struggles to keep her family-owned funeral home afloat. Until an unexpected corpse lands illicitly at her doorstep. A powerful meditation on our universal longing for connection, Dwein Baltazar's Ode to Nothing is one of the most captivating arthouse horror films to emerge from the Philippines.